How Scott Galloway Turned $8M into $120M Through Investing

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Want Scott Galloway's Business Playbook? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/pfg Episode 708: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Scott Galloway ( https://x.com/profgalloway ) about his wildest investments, plus advice for men in their 20s and 30s. — Show Notes: (0:00) FTX bankruptcy claims (Turning $2M into $15M with one trade) (6:56) NJOY (Turning $2.5M into $75M) (15:58) YellowPages (Turning $4M into $20M) (21:10) Prediction: The U.S market is about to have a 15-year downturn (27:55) The inverse galloway index (31:55) Who Scott admires (33:14) Advice for young men (37:19) Scott spots the next $1B trend: European markets (44:18) How does one ball? (46:00) Trump's meme coin and transnational oligarchs (53:25) More advice for young men — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	I've invested in every piece of the stack.
0:02.9	I've done mezzanine.
0:03.9	I've done public company investing, growth stocks, hands down.
0:09.2	The best asset class is distressed.
0:11.4	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:13.7	I know I could be what I want to.
0:16.4	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:19.0	On a road, let's travel, never look.
0:20.8	I heard you say something recently, and I think this happens to us, and it happens to you.
0:24.9	I would have to imagine you get pegged as like just like an influencer or a thought leader.
0:29.0	In reality, you've built a lot of amazing companies.
0:31.2	And you talked about something the other day that you were with Michael Lewis.
0:35.6	And at the end of the podcast, you guys barely mentioned this.
0:39.6	And it was, like, pretty astounding.
0:41.4	You talked about, or you told the story about how when FTX went bankrupt, you made some, like, pretty amazing trade.
0:49.6	Can you tell Sean and I more about that story and what happened?
0:53.5	Do you know what I'm talking about?
0:55.1	Yeah.
0:55.7	So I always like to counter it with how many times I fucked up.
1:00.9	So I bought Netflix at $10 a share, I'm sorry, at $12, and I sold it at $10, and now it's
1:07.0	at $1,100.
1:07.9	So I get it wrong all the time.
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